Wire hook and hanger



(No Model.)

B.. GORTON.

WIRE HOOK AND HANGER.

No. 451,122. Patented Apr. 28, 1891.

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ROBERT eoR'roN, or PLMNErELD, NEW JERSEY.

WIRE HOOK AND HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 451,122, dated April2S, 1891.

Application filed April 26, 1890.

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ROBERT GORTO-N, a citizen of the United States,residing at Plainfield, county of Union, and State of New .I ersey, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in lVire Hooks andI-langers, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to ceiling-hangers having opposite hooks, theentire hanger being bent up from a single piece of wire. A number ofceiling-hooks of this character have heretofore been patented; but noneof them, so far as I am aware, have been bent in the peculiar mannerbelow described, nor have they had the characteristics of my improvedhanger.

In the accompanying drawings,Figure lis a side elevation of a hanger,the dotted line indicating the board or Stringer into which the hook isvertically screwed. Fig. 2 is a bottom view of the same, and Fig. 3 abottom view showing a modiiied construction.

I take a piece of wire, preferably screwthreaded upon the end to form afastening attachment, and at points about equally distant from itscenter a the wire is bent upon itself in the same plane with the centralpart a, so as to form loops B B. In Figs. 1 and 2,

as will be observed, the wire at the loop B is turned in the oppositedirection from the wire at the loop B-that is to say, looking at Fig. l,the loop B is formed by bringing the wire b toward the observer, whileat the loop B the wire b is turned away from the observer. The wires b bare carried toward each other preferably until they abut immediatelyover the central point a, being curved upwardly, as shown at b2. The twosides composed of the parts a, B, and b and a B b are turned up to formhooks, as clearly shown. As a result of this formation the central parta of the wire extends diagonally from the side of one loop B to theopposite side of the other loop B', and the hanging faces of the twohooks being formed by both of the parallel wires there is a broadbearing for the garment or garment-suspension loop.

From the points b2 the wires hb are carried up vertically, these partsof the wire being marked, respectively, e and d. The part c is formedwith an outward bend or shoulder c near the top or screw-threaded end,while the Serial No. 349,600. (No model.)

part d is bent over and turned around the part c above thebend c in oneor more convolutions or. turns in the same plane, so as to form ashoulder or'bearingcl. The screwthreaded end c of the hook serves asaconvenient means of attaching and supporting it.

In Fig. 3 a hook is shown in which the wires b b are both turned in thesame direction and extend inwardly, as before, toward the axial centerof the hook. The part ct connects corresponding sides of the loops B B',but is bent inwardly, so that `its middle a comes directly under theparts c d. The result is much the same as in the construction shown inFigs. l and 2. The hooks are formed by Wires b a and t d, occupying thesame horizontal planes, so that the broad or double wire bearing isobtained and strains upon either hook are sustained in the manner belowdescribed.

The parts c d are shown as extending up side by side untwisted, and thatis the way I prefer to have them; but obviously whatever dispositionmaybe made of these parts of the wire the formation of the other part ofthe hanger will not be affected.

The structure of the hook is obvious notl only from the foregoingdescription, but from the drawings. In describing it I have notattempted to specify in the order that they should be made the variousbendings of the wire. My obj ect has only been to show the formation ofthe hook, and obviously the successive bendings could follow each otherin l different order from that suggested.

Among the advantages incident to this hook it may be stated that byreason of the particular formation of the base of the hanger the strainupon the hooks is comparatively without torsion and is not liable todistort the hanger. Any strain upon the hook 4from which the wire cextends will be received in a great measure directly upon thescrewthreaded end, while any strain upon the opposite hook will besimilarly transferred to the screw-threaded end by reason of the bearingd', resting upon the shoulder c of 'the lVlIG C.

I claim as my invention-e l. A ceiling-hook formed from a single pieceof wire having the part r1., the looped ends B B of the hooks, the partsb b', turned IOO in reverse directions at the loops B B in planes atright angles to the vertical plane of the hook and having curved partsb2 and vertical parts c d, the bearing partsof the Wires b or b and a ofeach hook being side by side or in the saine transverse horizontallines, and a securing-screw at the end of and in line with the verticalpart c d of the hook, all substantially as hereinbefore described.

2. A ceiling-hanger hook formed from a single piece of Wirescrew-threaded at one end, said hanger having hooks with looped ends BB, the part a extending diagonally from one side of oneloop to theopposite side of the other loop, the parts b b', turned at said loops inreverse directions and extending toward each other, being curved at52192, the parallel parts c d, the shoulder c in the Wire c, yand abearing d', formed by one or more convolutions of the'wire cl around theopposite Wire between the screwthreaded end and the shoulder c',substantially as set forth.

3. A ceiling-hanger hook formed from a single piece of Wire havingopposite hooks `in the same vertical and horizontal planes formed byloops B B', the Wire a, running in a horizontal direction directly fromloop to loop and forming a side of each loop, wires b b', bent at rightangles to the vertical plane of the hook and respectively forming theremaining sides of said loops, the parts or Wires b or b in each hook inthat part forming the hanging or bearing surface of Jthe hook being sideby side, or, in other Words, in the same transverse horizontal lines,the curved o1' turned-up parts b2, forming continuations of the parts bb', the vertical parts c d, forming continuations of b b', and asecuringscrew at the end of and in line with the Vertical parts c d, allsubstantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed niy name.

ROBERT GORTON. Witnesses:

H. V. D. 'liiRHU1\Ir:,r W. LEsLIE ScRYMsER.

